(March 16, 2006) The New York branch of The Bank of Chile refused to hand over the records of the Pinochet Foundation, which is suspected of having been used by the ex Chilean dictator to launder money.

(November 27, 2005) Chilean President Ricardo Lagos was quoted Sunday as saying his country’s former dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, "no longer exists" politically.

(November 26, 2005) Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet cancelled his 90th birthday celebrations yesterday, citing health concerns after he was charged and arrested for crimes ranging from human rights violations to multimillion-dollar tax fraud.

(November 24, 2005) Arrest seen as victory for regime’s victims.

(November 16, 2005) Chilean former dictator Augusto Pinochet told a judge he doesn’t believe there were excesses during his 17-year rule, and if there were, God would pardon him, a human rights lawyer said.

(October 19, 2005) Chile’s Supreme Court stripped former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution on Wednesday so he can face charges of tax fraud involving an estimated $27 million in offshore accounts, a court source told Reuters.

(October 14, 2005) Chile’s former military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, amassed some of his secret fortune with commissions from weapons sales, a state prosecutor has said.

(October 3, 2005) Augusto Pinochet has few public friends left; Salvador Allende’s reputation is being revived.

(September 16, 2005) The Serious Fraud Office is expected to launch an investigation into disclosures that the arms company BAE secretly paid more than £1m to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

(September 16, 2005) A day after Chile’s Supreme Court opened the way for a third major trial against the 89-year-old ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, his lawyers won another round in their efforts to protect him from prosecution for human rights abuses by his regime.

(September 15, 2005) US investigators find 100 accounts linked to general; secret payments listed to alleged front companies.

(August 25, 2005) Money, not human rights, may prove to be ex-dictator’s Achilles heel, analyst says.

(August 15, 2005) US$1 million repatriated to Chile; Mrs. Pinochet repatriated home.

(May 19, 2005) Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who faces a court investigation for possible crimes related to his multimillion dollar secret bank accounts, suffered a mini-stroke on Thursday and was hospitalized for several hours.